The number of views on video-game live-streaming service Twitch is a good barometer for how popular a game is at the current moment, and no game is enjoying more widespread popularity right now than Fortnite.

According to Gamoloco, which aggregates viewership data on live-stream gaming platforms, Fortnite dwarfed the PC games competition with a total of 126.47 million hours of viewed content in June 2018. The second most popular game was League of Legends with 72.25 million hours of Twitch streaming.

Other popular games on Twitch in June included Dota 2, IRL, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG). Fortnite's massive popularity even led the PUBG Corporation to file a (now withdrawn) lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games alleging copyright infringement of its Battle Royale format.

Fortnite broke PUBG's world record in back in February with 3.4 million players online at once and has generated around $1.3 billion in sales as of June with an estimated $200 million per month in in-game transactions. It's good to be king.

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